Cold War Almanac | An Unsettled World

• Second-strike strategies
• The Berlin and Cuba crises
• Latin American challenges
• Upheaval in communist China
• The Prague Spring: More communist upheaval
• War in Indochina
• For More Information
• Words to Know
• People to Know
• Peace Corps
• Alliance for Progress

Communism was a central theme during the 1960 presidential election between the Democratic candidate, U.S. senator John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) of Massachusetts, and the Republican...